RIGA IFF: Monkas fragmenti

David Roberts, Billie
Monk's fragments
Monk in Piece
US, DE, FR
2025, 94 ', en
We recommend Monka's music from the age of 12 that it was "put in cats with each other". It could not be said that her influence on dance, theater, performance, composition, music video and interdisciplinary practices is underestimated, but has little attention. Having started her practice, coming from the migrant family, she confirmed herself in the dominant of men in New York art at the turn of the 1960s and 70s. By developing throat singing and "voice as universal languages" and messaging philosophy, Monka gradually overtook its place and is the priestess of the avant -garde art today. Combining interviews, archive materials, animation and Monka's unpredictability of expression and form, creating a moving image mosaic artist for more than sixty years of creative work with "Cell Songs" and "Nature". In addition to Roberts and the Portretive Film's perpetrators, her companions and creative partners, David, appear on the screen, Bjorka, Philip Glass and many others who can't imagine music, movement scores and contemporary art without her. The film was screened in a number of prestigious film festivals - Berlin, Thessaloniki, Hong Kong and elsewhere. By documenting Monk's latest work - the "Indra Network" performance - Monka is confronted with mortality: is it any of her work that can be repeated without her own presence? Does the art lose its sound without its creator?

Suggested Age: 12+
Screen Language: English
Subtitle language: no
Synchronous translation: Latvian
Duration of the session: 94 min
Place for wheelchair: is

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